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Cody Brown

Meme 2020 and the Inevitable Rise of Creator Federations

Sometime around 3pm EST, a group of some of the most popular meme pages on Instagram dropped a series of posts.

4 min readFeb 14, 2020

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Meme 2020 and the Inevitable Rise of Creator Federations

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Cody Brown

Conductor Social Networks

A framework for thinking about an emergent kind of social network online and some hope on what to build next

8 min readJun 12, 2019

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Conductor Social Networks

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Yelling fire in a crowded theater and never getting caught

One of the fundamental caveats of free speech is intent to harm with a knowingly false statement of fact. You are perfectly able to shout…

4 min readMar 7, 2019

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Yelling fire in a crowded theater and never getting caught

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Cody Brown

TBH and the social media Death Valley

Remember TBH? The anonymous compliment app? At it’s peak last year, TBH was getting 2.5m daily active users and had over a billion poll…

3 min readJul 9, 2018

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TBH and the social media Death Valley

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Cody Brown

Zuck The Conqueror to Zuck the Governor

I’m about two thirds of my way through “Conspiracy,” Ryan Holiday’s book about Peter Thiel and Gawker, when I read a page where I had to…

5 min readApr 3, 2018

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Zuck The Conqueror to Zuck the Governor

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The Death and Life of a Global Web Platform

We’re living in an era of the web where a wide group of people who built the web are coming to the same conclusion. Facebook executives who…

3 min readJan 4, 2018

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The Death and Life of a Global Web Platform

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How to lose $8k worth of bitcoin in 15 minutes with Verizon and Coinbase.com

It begins with a text message from Verizon

9 min readMay 31, 2017

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How to lose $8k worth of bitcoin in 15 minutes with Verizon and Coinbase.com

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Anyone want to join a bookclub inside VR?

I’ve spent quite a number of hours in social VR experiences in the past six months. AltspaceVR, VRChat, Sports Bar VR and Rec Room are some…

2 min readMar 9, 2017

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Anyone want to join a bookclub inside VR?

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There are so many big lessons we can learn from The Void about how to sell VR

This has been a rough few weeks for VR. Sales are lower than expected, some developers are turning, and then this brutal headline dropped…

4 min readFeb 16, 2017

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Our politics won’t change until we move on from Twitter

I tweeted something this week I shouldn’t have. Sometime around 2am, I saw a thread about a prominent American Trump supporter whose geotag…

4 min readFeb 8, 2017

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Cody Brown

Cody Brown

working on something new. trying to make the internet more sane and cinematic. previously, co-founder of @scrollkit (acquired by WordPress).

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